Learn French Fast And Be Confident

Whenever you learn something fast, it’s easy to doubt that you learned it well. In fact, most of the time, you probably haven’t learned it well. The weaknesses of the crash course model usually foil sincere efforts to learn quickly. You can learn French fast, however, and be confident that what you’re learning and what you’ve learned will actually be useful.

First, consider what you’ll be doing with the language. If you’re travelling to a French speaking nation, you’ll be doing everything with it, of course. If you’re learning it out of personal interest, you’ll likely be using it to converse with French-speaking friends or to participate in a hobby group of some sort. At either extreme, you’re going to be using it to converse. Therefore, it’s obviously a good idea to have materials that teach you to do just that.

Materials that allow you to learn French fast enough to be able to jump into conversations in a reasonable amount of time have to expose you to realistic conversations. Theater pieces are good for this, as long as they’re designed to be used by French students. This ensures that the language is proper and that you aren’t learning slang or, worse yet, offensive terms without even knowing it. Musical theater is another good option, perhaps a better one.

Pronunciation usually suffers in crash language courses. You can learn French fast and pronounce it correctly, however, when you learn from songs. This method is very rapid. Learning songs makes it easy to memorize new words. It also makes you use them right away, which basically teaches you to swim by throwing you in over your head. Most of the time, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how fast you’ll start picking up how to use these new words and what they mean.

As another confidence-boosting method, good materials provide you with minimal help translating what you’re hearing. In this regard, you learn French fast by being constantly confronted with the unexpected, which is how real life works! This prepares you to maintain comprehension, usually through context, when a particular word or expression throws you for a loop. Without this sort of training, you tend to stop listening to what someone is saying the minute they use a word you don’t understand. With this type of training, you understand everything else and, thus, can translate the unknown word confidently.

By: Dr. Dennis Dunham

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Dr.Dennis Dunham has over 25 years in international education experience and is a co-creator of LanguageandLyrics.com, a website designed to help you learn French the right way. If you've tried every language product out there and haven't made progress, visit LanguageandLyrics.com to see how learning French can be easy and fun.